Linda was voted US Female Photographer Of The Year and her pictures
were exhibited in 70 cities in 12 countries. Her work hangs in the
National Portrait Galleries of both the UK and the USA and she is the
only photographer to have been honoured by three separate exhibitions
at The Victoria & Albert Museum, The International Centre Of
Photography in New York and the UK’s National Museum Of Photography.

Linda’s pioneering spirit led her to rediscover and re-popularise the age-old form
of sun printing, literally printing photographs by using the sun’s rays.
More recently, she and her friend the artist Brian Clarke had begun
to spearhead a revival of the long forgotten 19th Century art of
stained glass photography.

An exhibition of her pictures set into stained glass by Brian Clarke opened at
the German National Museum Of Stained Glass in Linnich, near Cologne,
on May 16th 1998. Five books of Linda McCartney’s photography
have been published - Linda’s
Pictures; Photographs; Sunprints; Sixties: Portrait Of An Era and Roadworks.Photograph taken by Linda
McCartney in 1985 featured in the 2004 Water' Calendar

Linda’s photography did much to help promote the aims of many varied causes
including the anti-fur lobby Lynx, Greenpeace, The Council For The
Protection Of Rural England, Friends Of The Earth, The Great Ormond Street
Hospital, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, The Hammersmith
Hospital, The British Dyslexia Association, The Rye Memorial Hospital and
War Child.

In 1989 she began her other passion, to save the lives of animals through
promoting the vegetarian lifestyle that she and Paul had long embraced. Her
first two vegetarian cookbooks, Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking
and Linda’s Kitchen became international best sellers. Linda’s
cookbook, Linda McCartney On Tour, was published by Little,
Brown & Co in 1998. Following the huge success of her first cookbook,
Linda broke new ground in 1991 by launching her own range of readymade
meatfree meals, which have become the most popular vegetarian foods in
Britain, with more than 500 million Linda McCartney meals served. From
an initial choice of just six meals, the range expanded to more than 40
products.

Earlier in 1998 Linda came to the aid of two other causes, the cancer
charity Bacupand The Starlight Foundation - each of which
received profits associated with her sponsorship of the world’s first
all-vegetarian professional cycling team.

Since soon after their marriage in 1969, Linda performed alongside
Paul on his albums and on world tours in his bands. Earlier in 1998 she
and Paul completed recordings of songs that Linda had written herself.
Despite her work as a photographer, animal life campaigner, cookbook author,
musician and vegetarian pioneer, Linda McCartney always claimed
that her greatest achievement is her and Paul’s four children; Heather,
Mary, Stella and James.

Linda’s work also reached the cinema screen. Her photographs of
The Grateful Dead became the inspiration and focus of
Grateful Dead: A Photofilm, produced from a new process of making stills
photography move and morph that was invented by Paul McCartney. The
photofilm was honoured by entry into both the London and New York
Film Festivals.Photograph taken by Linda
McCartney in 1981 in Montserrat - featured in the 2004 'Water' calendar

Photograph taken by Linda McCartney - featured in the
2003 'PAIRS' desk calendar